Five years ago I thought Vanilla is dead and nobody cares. Now not only it's alive and kicking, not only is its code worth incorporating into variants (and not only the other way around as it was for many years), but people actually care to the point of flame wars. Congratulations and sleep well, this new life will last long.
Tendering my resignation
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It boiled down to you being awesome, helping out with Hellband when I just started, getting Angband GPL'ed which was quite the task, getting a team together that is willing and able to work on Vanilla and finally the V4 decision which I really like.
Cheers,
T.* Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *Comment
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Then takkaria came along with the 3.0.7 releases, and things changed. Takkaria saw wisdom in involving more people in developing angband - people like Pete Mack and CunningGabe were major contributors to takkaria's early versions. Later on people like me, d_m, myshkin, fizzix and noz joined the devteam. People come and go, but for three or four years now there have been four or five active devs on the team, often more. This has resulted in lots more work being done to clean up the code, fix bugs and introduce horribly controversial changes (which is why v4 happened). But the other big difference is that there are now always people with whom a maintainer can discuss what should and shouldn't be changed (as well as taking the temperature here). A maintainer will no longer have to rely on their own judgement. IMO that's an even more significant change than the extra coding capacity.
Ironically, one of takkaria's parting thoughts was that the devteam no longer needed a titular maintainer as a figurehead, and could instead operate by consensus. Fortunately, there was consensus over this idea in the team ;-)"Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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